Pet Peeve

Queen City Confidential | by Anonymous

The road to abandoned pet hell was paved with good intentions this festive season. December saw mixed messages from pet rescue and adoption groups that rightly urged people to NOT give animals as gifts WHILE RECKLESSLY PROMOTING ADOPTIONS. And now I’m seeing hand-wringing Facebook posts about the plethora of unwanted pets about to be returned or, worse, abandoned, by people who “didn’t think it through”? Please. Seems to me that a month of adorable animal promos made it tough for folks to think with their heads rather than hearts. Organizations that care about critters might want to rethink their contradiction-filled holiday strategy.

UN-MIX YOUR MESSAGE Queen City Confidential is an open forum for Prairie Dog readers to anonymously share their petty rants, workplace gripes, romantic woes and complaints about friends, family and well-intentioned animal organizations that might be wiser to make the Christmas season about fund-raising rather than adoptions. Just a thought. E-mail submissions to [email protected] (type CONFIDENTIAL in the subject field). Change everyone’s names and identifying details. Submissions must be 100–200 words and should not be lightly given as gifts because we don’t accept returns.